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    V3 anyone?

    Germany's tooling up again

    Germany eyes space satellite launchpad in North Sea - BBC News

    #2
    Originally posted by BR14 View Post

    Wont be as easy to bomb as Peenemünde. Did the yanks give them back their rocket scientists?
    Last edited by vetran; 8 September 2020, 14:41.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      Originally posted by vetran View Post
      Wont be as easy to bomb as Peenemünde. Did the yanks give them back their rocket scientists?
      no need to shout.

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        #4
        Originally posted by BR14 View Post
        no need to shout.

        sorry wasn't sure if you would hear it over the engines...
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post

          sorry wasn't sure if you would hear it over the engines...
          The time to worry is when the engines stop!
          Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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            #6
            Er, they already had a V3 (a big feckoff gun in France for shelling London) and a V4 (a curiously useless rocket thing*), so it'd have to be the V5.



            *Rheinbote - Wikipedia.

            "The fastest rocket of the era".
            Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 September 2020, 15:41.
            When the fun stops, STOP.

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              #7
              Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
              Er, they already had a V3 (a big feckoff gun in France for shelling London) and a V4 (a curiously useless rocket thing), so it'd have to be the V5.

              Didn't that (V3) end up in Iraq?
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #8
                Originally posted by vetran View Post
                Didn't that (V3) end up in Iraq?
                Gerald Bull took the idea & ran with it.

                But all those curiously precisely machined tubes were for the oil industry, honest.

                Sadly enough, for Bull, Mossad (allegedly) didn't believe it & he got TWEPed.
                When the fun stops, STOP.

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                  #9
                  Good job it's not a Chinese rocket

                  Another Chinese rocket falls near a school, creating toxic orange cloud | Ars Technica

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                    Impressive.

                    At least our steam driven rockets from Woomera used something slightly less nasty when the first stages plonked down on the outback.

                    Black Knight (rocket) - Wikipedia

                    Black Arrow - Wikipedia

                    The UK: the only country ever to have a home grown launch system & to give it up.

                    Grocer Heath, you make us proud.
                    When the fun stops, STOP.

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